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res·o·nance - noun
"Electricity- that condition of a circuit with respect to a given frequency or the like in which the net reactance is zero and the current flow a maximum." This definition of resonance as electricity is a great scientific way of the truth - we are all energy. What frequency do you choose to resonate at?

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Friday, August 15, 2008

Killing of the Boy - Part 1

I believe, as many scholars, theologists and analytical psychologists (starting with Carl Jung) have proposed - that in order for a man to step into his mature masculine - the boy must die. I will be looking at this paradigm in several parts. Rites of passage are a critical element of this transition - and a ritual that has been mostly forgotten in modern times. You don't have to go on a vision quest to have a rite of passage. Here's a story that has always blown me away, told by Jack Cornfield and repeated by Rev. Kathi Anne Lewis of the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle recently:
(click picture to watch a video of Jack Korkfield on meditation)
A 14-year old young man kills another 14-year old in a rival gang. He is sentenced to juvenile court. As he leaves the court room the mother of the boy who he killed says to him: "I will kill you." As the days pass, this mother starts to visit the young man in detention. She starts to take him cookies and books and soon is visiting him more than once a week. When he is released and has no where to go she offers him to stay with her. She pays for his education and finds him a job. Years later she asks him: "Remember when I said to you 'I will kill you?'" The young man says with fear "Yes." She replies: "Well I have. I have killed the boy who killed my son."
This story is among the most powerful examples of true compassion I have ever come across. Imagine if instead of hate and negative energy toward people, things or situations we encounter if we could be so bold as to take such a leap of faith, to believe anything is possible and most of all to truly forgive.
Please comment on what you believe makes us resonate and rise from the ashes?
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  1. silver eagleFriday, August 15, 2008

    namaste, I read this and was reminded of a group of people my wife and I met during our travels....it was the late 80's and the US of A was dissatisfied with the government it had created in Pananma (Noriega as the head)....the press and the world were condeming everything that could be condemed regarding Noriega....and this group, one man in particular, would speciffically send love to Noriega everyday.....he mentioned to me that, "perhaps nobody else on the planet was sending him love and holding a space for him to be in integrity".....I was inpressed and still remember the calm peaceful look on his face as he told me of the mission of "the Oasis"....sending love of god substance to envelope the planet and provide a "lake of peace" where, when needed, we / anyone could sit beside....swim in.....drink......

    In this article I would change the "I will kill you" to something a bit softer like "I will work with you" or "I will change you"...

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